Books

Politics and International Law: Making, Breaking, and Upholding Global Rules
Leslie Johns (2022)
New York, NY: Cambridge University Press
[online resources]

Strengthening International Courts: The Hidden Costs of Legalization
Leslie Johns (2015)
​Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Articles and Book Chapters

Living with Impunity versus Living in Fear: Universal Jurisdiction Defendants, Due Process, and the Use of Democracies by Autocracies to Prosecute their Opponents
Natalie Bryce, Leslie Johns, and Máximo Langer (Forthcoming)
Leiden Journal of International Law xx: xx-xx.

The Politics of Punishment: Why Dictators Join the International Criminal Court 
Leslie Johns and Francesca Parente (2024)
International Studies Quarterly 68: 1-15.
[online appendix]
Press coverage: Australian Outlook

Migration and the Demand for Transnational Justice
Leslie Johns, Máximo Langer, and Margaret E. Peters (2022)
American Political Science Review 116: 1184-1207.
[online appendix: theory] [online appendix: empirics]
Press coverage: Washington Post, Opinio Juris​

Formal Models of International Political Economy: Looking Back and Moving Forward
Leslie Johns (2021)
In Oxford Handbook of International Political Economy
Jon Pevehouse and Leonard Seabrooke, ed. Oxford University Press.

The Price of Doing Business: Why Replaceable Foreign Firms Get Worse Government Treatment
Leslie Johns and Rachel Wellhausen (2021)
Economics & Politics 33: 209-243.
[online appendix]

Judicial Economy and Moving Bars in International Investment Arbitration
Leslie Johns, Calvin Thrall and Rachel Wellhausen (2020)
Review of International Organizations 15: 923-945.

The Design of Enforcement: Collective Action and the Enforcement of International Law
Leslie Johns (2019)
Journal of Theoretical Politics 31: 543-567.
[online appendix]

When Things Fall Apart: The Impact of Global Governance on Civil Conflict  
Leslie Johns and Frank Wyer (2019)
Journal of Politics 81 (4): e80-e84.

How a Retreat from Global Economic Governance May Empower Business Interests
Leslie Johns, Krzysztof Pelc, and Rachel Wellhausen (2019)
Journal of Politics 81 (2): 731-738.

International Law's Empire
Leslie Johns (2019)
Journal of Politics 81 (1): e23-e26

Free-Riding on Enforcement in the WTO
Leslie Johns and Krzysztof Pelc (2018)
Journal of Politics 80 (3): 873-889.
​[online appendix]

The Diverging Theory and Practice of International Law
Leslie Johns (2018)
In Encyclopedia of Empirical International Relations Theory.
William R. Thompson, ed. Oxford University Press, pp. 513-535.
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Under One Roof: Supply Chains and the Protection of Foreign Investment
Leslie Johns and Rachel Wellhausen (2016)
American Political Science Review 110 (1): 31-51.
[online appendix]

Fear of Crowds in World Trade Organization Disputes: Why Don't More Countries Participate?
Leslie Johns and Krzysztof Pelc (2016)
Journal of Politics 78 (1): 88-104.
[online appendix]

The Design of Trade Agreements
Leslie Johns and Lauren Peritz (2015)
In Oxford Handbook of the Politics of International Trade.
Lisa Martin, ed. Oxford University Press, pp. 337-359.

Who Gets to Be in the Room? Manipulating Participation in WTO Disputes
Leslie Johns and Krzysztof J. Pelc (2014)
International Organization 68 (3): 663-699.
[online appendix]

Depth versus Rigidity in the Design of International Trade Agreements
Leslie Johns (2014)
Journal of Theoretical Politics 26 (3): 468-495.
[online appendix]

Courts as Coordinators: Endogenous Enforcement and Jurisdiction in International Adjudication
Leslie Johns (2012)
Journal of Conflict Resolution 56 (2): 257-289.
[online appendix]

Formal Models of International Institutions
Michael Gilligan and Leslie Johns (2012)
Annual Review of Political Science 15 (1): 221-243.

Strengthening International Courts and the Early Settlement of Disputes
Michael Gilligan, Leslie Johns, and B. Peter Rosendorff (2010)
Journal of Conflict Resolution 54 (5): 5-38.
[online appendix]

Dispute Settlement, Compliance, and Domestic Politics
Leslie Johns and B. Peter Rosendorff (2009)
In Trade Disputes and the Dispute Settlement Understanding of the WTO: An Interdisciplinary Assessment.
James C. Hartigan, ed. Emerald Group Publishing, pp. 139-163.

A Servant of Two Masters: Communication and the Selection of International Bureaucrats
Leslie Johns (2007)
International Organization 61 (Spring): 245-275.

Knowing the Unknown: Executive Evaluation and International Crisis Outcomes
Leslie Johns (2006)
Journal of Conflict Resolution 50 (2): 228-252.
[online appendix]

Other Publications

Dictators and the ICC: The Enemy's Enemy
Leslie Johns and Francesca Parente (2024)
Australian Outlook. September 24.

Secrecy, Information, and Power in International Criminal Tribunals
Leslie Johns and Natalie Bryce (2024)
H-Diplo/Robert Jervis International Security Scholars Forum. July 12.

The FIFA World Cup, Migrant Workers, and International Law’s Dirty Secret
Leslie Johns and Margaret E. Peters (2022)
Opinio Juris. November 22.

Instead of Prohibiting Child Labor, Empower Child Workers​
Leslie Johns (2022)
World Politics Review. November 3.

Migrants and Justice Remittances: How the Movement of People Across Borders is Enabling the Spread of Universal Jurisdiction Cases
Leslie Johns, Maximo Langer, and Margaret E. Peters (2022)
Opinio Juris. June 16.

Germany convicted a Syrian man of war crimes in Syria. Can national courts prosecute injustices everywhere?
Leslie Johns, Maximo Langer, and Margaret E. Peters (2022)
Washington Post (online). January 14.